Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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named Abbott drawin' some queer lookin' things on the board and tellin' 'em how to make things in mud. Say, maw, they's purty, too. I saw a feller goin' into a room with a number on it in yaller. He was the teacher of funny things in position at a desk in a room filled with maps and things. I asked him what he was doin' and if he was waitin' for somebody. He said, naw, he was tryin' to write some poetry. He turned round real sudden and opened a. door back of him and says, Where's the fire? I didn't smell the smoke. Purty soon there wasn't so much noise in that next room. He turned wan 5' to me and says: EW 1 e ' K I r W fr i .V 'ig H J J W4 ' ' 'f ' if-' eh,-e il He went to illustrate a drawing. nature. Things with legs and wings and all that stuff. u Yi He was illustratin' some funny things and showin' 'em a bug's ant-annie. A P1 fx .Jr . ik K Q-ge N fffli I XF 6nxff:.Z:' QL J .H ' I gfzfhi ,,,+x ,.... 'Piller fights' is purty good, Soze 'Plum Creek 'Leaven', too, But all of 'em is most played out- I must write somethin' new. 'Baseball Daze' sounds purty nice, But 'Teachin' school' 's too dry. 'Thenadays' is on my mind, 'Thennowadaze' I '11 try. 'N then he gazed fer ten solid minutes at a spot on the wall, wrote one line, put the paper away and says, there she 's started. I saw a good-1ookin', stout feller settin' in a lazy As I passed by a room with some foreign writiu'

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59.1, if 'N as.. 'V f iw 3 H QJJ Q, 17? ' I' .x1, 1 I . . af 1. ws, ag' ,jm Mddern Atlas. The President sent me down to see the Vice-Pres- ident-the Vice-President, maw, is the feller that bosses when the other boss ain't here. Say, paw, I'm goin' to try to be Presidentg all you have to do is just boss and talk over the telyfone. But the Vice- 'u ,I buf!! 1 UU' I' e . J I are . A M . I , Yi if 5 No credit in teaching unless you're tought. President wasn't very glad to see me. While I was -15- there he refused to give one girl somethin' and re- marked that nothin' but forty weeks goes here. I-Ie sent me over to a Miss Whitbeck. She sat there drummin' her Hngers on a funny little thing just to pass away the time. She asked me for iive dollars. I didn't consider it very good music and I did think she was a little high, but I remembered what you said, paw, about not appearin' green, so I paid it and she gave me a. piece of paper and sent me down to a Miss Milligan who said to show up at 8:10 to-morrow. So I started out to look around. I Went out into a hall and saw a feller bossin' a lot of other fellers that had clothes-brushes and broom-sticks. One of 'ern told me his name was C. A. Boyles. I thot it ought to abeen C. A. Freckles, but he knows better'n I do. They s-ay, and in fact it is even rumored that he will lock you in or out of the Normal just wherever you happen to be at 6 o'clock. Says its Hirresipelas to him. He was purty tall and slim except about half- way up and looked like he wanted a fight, so I went into the gym-something, and while I was a standin' there a. lookin' at a feller turn summersets 'n things, another teller named Carney jumped up into the air and caught some rings and pulled his feet way up into the air, and then dropped 'em like a Sledge on my head. Coarse I couldn't blame him for droppin' 'em, but say, maw, do you remember when I fell on the ice? That same funny feelin' came over me. When I came to, there was a lady' standin' over me, sayin', Fours forward, halt! Some one said she was rattled, but I guess not. I went over to another room and saw a perfessor

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on the board I heard a feller say, that reminds me of the story of the Kilkenny cats, and, walking into alll 3' J' Sn , E1 ' :I ul, lqf 13 U A ,. 2' U. f i r Makes me think of the Killkinny Cats. the room, I found two perfessers having a jolly time 1:5 KV!! , ?f,l1F 7335 wg. I 1 1 '. ,-5: ' 4 .5-7' Y. if 4 W1 ' - 3 ,1-ff. I break a bad habit every new place I go. together. One of them put his finger in his vest-pocket to keep it warm, and said, I break one bad habit every new place I go. He didn't look as wise as the other guy, but a feller told me that he had about 5 degrees of learningehad been in lots of big schools, I went into his room and found him holdin' a baby up with a pair of pinchers and a lookin' at him thro' a glass. I asked him what he was doin' and he says just havin' a little child study. 'N I' ,ig-'Z .,--..,- rf 1 , The study of a. child. Ther-e's lots more of 'em up here, paw, but if I get up to show new students around to-morrow, I must go to bed now. Good-bye, maw. ' Send iive, paw, to your loving son, Hiram. P. S.-Send 50c extra for Hospital Feeze.